iOS extracts: CGAffineTransformInvert

extracts from 《Beginning iPhone Games Development》

Let’s tell Quartz 2D to put our canvas back in the default or (0,0) position. We do this byasking for the current transformation, a mathematical matrix describing how the canvaswas moved from its original location, orientation, and scale. The canvas could be in anystate. We then calculate the exact opposite motion, which in mathematics is called theinverse matrix. Finally, we ask Quartz 2D to apply the inverse matrix to the currenttransformation. Since the transformations are affine, and since all affine transformationsare reversible, this will place our canvas back to the default location.

We need three lines of code:

CGAffineTransform t0 = CGContextGetCTM(context);
t0 = CGAffineTransformInvert(t0);
CGContextConcatCTM(context,t0);

CGContextGetCTMreturns the graphic context’s transformation matrix orCTM, as a matrixdata structure. We callCGAffineTransformInvertto create the inverse matrix. We thencallCGContextConcatCTM, which will concatenate our new matrixt0with the existingmatrix.Concatenationis the act of multiplying the matrix you supply (t0in this case) withthe current drawing matrix. When any matrix is multiplied by its inverse, we get theidentity matrix. The identity matrix restores the canvas to its original, native state, asthough no transformations were performed.